Affair Quote by Niels Bohr

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

— Niels Bohr

“Stop telling God what to do with his dice.”

— Niels Bohr

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

— Niels Bohr

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

— Niels Bohr

“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself it’s own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”

— Niels Bohr

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

— Niels Bohr

Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.

— Niels Bohr

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

— Niels Bohr

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.

— Niels Bohr

Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]

— Niels Bohr

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts…

— Niels Bohr

Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.

— Niels Bohr